New Releases by Mary Beard

De Jules César à Alexandre Sévère, l''Empire romain a été gouverné par des dizaines d''empereurs. Mais qui étaient-ils ? Et que nous apprennent-ils de la Rome antique ? À rebours d’une galerie chronologique de portraits qui nous ferait passer de Caligula le fou à Marc Aurèle le philosophe, sans oublier Néron le monstre, Mary Beard ose une approche transversale et propose une plongée passionnante dans la Rome impériale : quel pouvoir les empereurs détenaient-ils ? Que signifiait concrètement régner sur un aussi vaste territoire ? Quel rôle jouait la cour ? À quoi ressemblait un banquet ? Le palais impérial était-il aussi sanglant qu’on le croit ? Pour répondre à ces questions, l’autrice redonne toute leur place à une foule d''individus qui participent au système impérial. Aristocrates méfiants, esclaves cuisiniers, secrétaires zélés, bouffons à la cour : ce sont là autant de personnages actionnant plus ou moins malgré eux les rouages de cette vaste machinerie que fut l’Empire romain. En revenant sur les fantasmes et en dissipant tous les clichés qui entourent la cour impériale, Mary Beard éclaire comme jamais la petite et la grande histoire pour offrir un panorama original autant qu’un livre d’une générosité sans pareille. Mary Beard est professeure émérite d’histoire romaine à Cambridge. Elle jouit d’une renommée académique dans le monde entier. Elle a notamment publié précédemment SPQR. Histoire de l’ancienne Rome (Perrin, 2016), best-seller mondial et Pompéi. La vie d’une cité romaine (Seuil, 2012 ; Points, 2015), lauréat du prix Wolfson. Elle a participé à de nombreuses séries télévisées et ses livres ont été publiés dans plus de trente langues.

Entenda os governantes de hoje a partir dos governantes do passado Que poder os imperadores realmente tinham? O palácio romano estava realmente tão manchado de sangue? Após contar a história milenar da Roma Antiga em seu best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard traz agora um vasto panorama de trinta imperadores que governaram o Império Romano por 250 anos. Não se trata, contudo, de uma listagem cronológica de autoridades: Imperador de Roma é sobre o que significava ser soberano. Seus poderes, sua rotina e suas polêmicas são objetos de três décadas de estudo e pesquisa da autora, que explora as grandes tensões do poder imperial e desmente inúmeras suposições que, por muito tempo, foram interpretadas como verdade. Para além das loucuras de Calígula e da filosofia de Marco Aurélio, Mary Beard narra o cotidiano de um dos grandes momentos da história, proporcionando uma imersão no vasto Império Romano.

This is an exceptional moment for democracy. In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and more on what democracy means - and why it matters. In 2024, nearly half the world will take part in a national election, with billions heading to the polls. It''s a thrilling, unprecedented opportunity for change - yet democracy is also under threat. Women are at the forefront of the fight for democratic rights, as well as being the most vulnerable when those rights disappear. Here, eleven extraordinary women - leaders, philosophers, historians, writers and activists - explore democracy''s power to uplift our societies. Between its ancient origins and its modern challenges, they chare a vision for a better future - one we can build together.

Grymma, galet rika och maktfullkomliga - så beskrivs ofta det antika Roms kejsare. Men vilka var de egentligen, och vad innebar det att styra över ett av de mäktigaste imperierna världshistorien skådat?I den internationella succén SPQR berättade Mary Beard om det antika Roms tusenåriga historia. Med sin nya bok riktar hon fokus mot de härskare som ledde riket, från Julius Caesar (mördad 44 f.Kr.) till Alexander Severus (mördad 235 e.Kr.), hon gör upp med myter och skapar ett mer nyanserat porträtt av antikens mest glorifierade figurer.Vilken makt hade kejsaren egentligen? Varför blev så många kejsare avrättade? Vilka var det som drog i trådarna bakom kulisserna, och hur gick det ens att styra över ett så enormt rike?Än en gång visar Mary Beard varför hon är en av vår tids främsta historieförfattare. I Kejsare av Rom berättar hon Romarrikets historia som den aldrig berättats tidigare. En bred, lärd och underhållande bok om ett av historiens mest kända jobb.[Bokinfo].

Vuelve Mary Beard con la continuación de SPQR. Una nueva manera de ver el Imperio Romano ¿Fanáticos del control, adictos al trabajo o adolescentes malcriados? ¿Cómo eran realmente los emperadores de Roma? En SPQR, Mary Beard narró la historia milenaria de la antigua Roma. En este nuevo libro centra su atención en los emperadores que gobernaron el Imperio romano para darnos una versión matizada y más precisa de estas glorificadas figuras clásicas. Desde Julio César (asesinado en el 44 a.C.) hasta Alejandro Severo (asesinado en el 235 d.C.), pasando por el loco de Calígula, el monstruoso Nerón y el filósofo Marco Aurelio, Mary Beard recorre la vida y los mitos de los grandes gobernantes romanos y nos plantea grandes preguntas: ¿qué poder real ostentaban los emperadores?, ¿quién movía los hilos entre bambalinas?, ¿cómo se gobernaba un imperio tan vasto?, ¿realmente estaban las paredes de palacio tan manchadas de sangre? Para darnos respuesta y acercarnos un poco más a la realidad imperial, Mary Beard sigue los pasos del emperador de cerca: en su hogar y en las carreras, en sus viajes e, incluso, de camino hacia el cielo; nos presenta a sus esposas y amantes, a sus rivales y esclavos, a los bufones y soldados de la corte y a la gente corriente que le entregaba cartas de súplica. Emperador de Roma nos lleva directamente hasta el corazón de Roma, y de nuestras fantasías sobre lo que era ser romano, a través de un relato como nunca antes se había contado. «Un relato arrollador del mundo social y político de los emperadores romanos por "la clasicista más famosa del mundo"». — The Guardian

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Best Books of 2023: New Yorker, The Economist, Smithsonian Most Anticipated Books of Fall: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TODAY, Literary Hub, and Publishers Weekly "A vivid way to re-examine what we know, and don’t, about life at the top.... Emperor of Rome is a masterly group portrait, an invitation to think skeptically but not contemptuously of a familiar civilization." —Kyle Harper, Wall Street Journal A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most famous classicist” (Guardian). In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and taking us through the nearly three centuries—and some thirty emperors—that separate him from the boy-king Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Yet Emperor of Rome is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger and more probing questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell? And for that matter, what really happened, for example, between the emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard tracks the emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. Along the way, Beard explores Roman fictions of imperial power, overturning many of the assumptions that we hold as gospel, not the least of them the perception that emperors one and all were orchestrators of extreme brutality and cruelty. Here Beard introduces us to the emperor’s wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers, and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hand—whose chamber pot disputes were adjudicated by Augustus, and whose budgets were approved by Vespasian, himself the son of a tax collector. With its finely nuanced portrayal of sex, class, and politics, Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman fantasies (and our own) about what it was to be Roman at its richest, most luxurious, most extreme, most powerful, and most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.

Hogyan fest a hatalom arca? Kit örökít meg a művészet, és miért? Hogyan tekintünk olyan politikusok szobrára, akiket emberként megvetünk? Ebben a könyvben Mary Beard – a mai emlékműszobrászatot övező esztétikai és politikai csetepaték háttere előtt – elmeséli, hogy az elmúlt kétezer év folyamán a nyugati világ hatalmasainak arcmásait hogyan befolyásolta a római császárok ábrázolása. A világhírű ókortörténész, az SPQR és a Pompeji című könyvek szerzője főképpen a „tizenkét cézár” – Julius Caesar és az első tizenegy császár – alakjára összpontosítva elemzi, hogy ezek a könyörtelen autokraták miképpen váltak hatalmassá az antik, a reneszánsz és az újkori művészetben is. E gazdagon illusztrált kötet kétezer éves utazásra kalauzol a művészet- és művelődéstörténet világában. Szobrászok és festők alkotásai mellett találkozhatunk ötvösök, kárpitszövők, rézmetszők, műbútorasztalosok és keramikusok munkáival is, továbbá számos meglepő történetet olvashatunk alakok véletlen vagy szándékos félreazonosításáról, hamisításról, az erő, az uralom többértelmű reprezentációjáról. A Tizenkét császár mindemellett izgalmas detektívtörténet a hatalom ábrázolásának leginkább nyugtalanító és állásfoglalásra késztető példáiról.

Beginning with the importance of portraits of emperors in ancient Roman politics, this richly illustrated book takes the reader on a journey through two millennia of art and culture, offering a fresh perspective on the work of artists from Memling and Mantena to the nineteenth-century American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as the art of generations of weavers, furniture makers, woodworkers, silversmiths, printers, and potters. The book takes readers on a journey through two millennia of art and culture, offering a fresh look at the work of artists from Memling and Mantenna to the nineteenth-century American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as the art of generations of weavers, furniture makers, silversmiths, printers, and potters. Instead of monotonous, repetitive, conservative, and boring portraits of royal men and women, this book tells unexpected stories of shifting identities, intentional and unintentional misidentifications, forgeries, and often contradictory representations of authority.

Mary Beard, Premio Princesa de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales 2016 Novelas, películas, teatro, moda, turismo dan fe del innegable atractivo que sigue ejerciendo, pasados más de dos mil años, el mundo clásico en nuestros días. A cargo de los prestigiosos especialistas Mary Beard (Premio Princesa de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales 2016) y John Henderson, esta breve introducción nos lleva, con un original planteamiento, a captar y distinguir las variadísimas imbricaciones de la antigüedad grecolatina y los numerosos frutos que ha alumbrado a lo largo de la historia, desde Virgilio a Poussin y Evelyn Waugh, de Demócrito a Karl Marx, de las ruinas de un templo en la recóndita Arcadia a James Frazer. Un libro vivaz, de amena lectura, rebosante de anécdotas, que no sólo rompe una lanza a favor de la cultura clásica, sino que sienta su importancia insoslayable para la comprensión y construcción del mundo actual.

La fascinante historia de cómo las imágenes de los emperadores romanos han influido en el arte, la cultura y la representación del poder durante más de dos mil años. ¿Cómo es el rostro del poder? ¿A quién se representa en el arte y por qué? En esta obra singular, Mary Beard -seguramente la clasicista más prestigiosa de nuestros días- cuenta la historia de cómo durante más de dos milenios los retratos de los ricos, poderosos y famosos del mundo occidental han sido moldeados a partir de la imagen de los emperadores romanos, especialmente los Doce Césares. Desde el despiadado Julio César hasta el cruel Domiciano, el poder se representa a imitación del arte clásico y los dirigentes caídos en desgracia a menudo son caricaturizados como Nerones tocando el violín mientras Roma arde. Comenzando con la importancia de los retratos imperiales en la política romana, este libro ricamente ilustrado nos ofrece un recorrido a través de dos mil años de historia del arte y la cultura, presentando una mirada fresca a las obras de artistas desde Mantegna hasta la actualidad, así como por generaciones de tejedores, ebanistas, plateros, impresores y ceramistas. Más que la historia de una simple repetición de imágenes de hombres y mujeres imperiales, Doce césares es una historia sorprendente de identidades cambiantes, identificaciones erróneas deliberadas o desorientadas, falsificaciones y, a menudo, representaciones ambivalentes de la autoridad.

Qual é a face do poder? Quem será celebrado pela arte, e por quê? E como reagir a estátuas de governantes que deploramos? Neste livro assombroso — escrito em meio a um questionamento global sobre esculturas políticas —, Mary Beard conta a história de como, ao longo de mais de 2 mil anos, os ricos, famosos e poderosos foram retratados aos moldes dos imperadores romanos, do brutal Júlio César ao torturador de moscas Domiciano. Doze Césares faz uma pergunta fundamental: por que esses assassinos autocratas impactaram tanto a arte, do Renascimento aos dias de hoje, quando líderes ainda são retratados à maneira de Nero, tocando seu violino enquanto Roma queima? O ponto de partida é a própria importância do retrato imperial para a sociedade romana e o que ele significava para a política da época. Como uma detetive, Mary Beard investiga a difusão dessas imagens ao longo de dois milênios e mostra em que medida elas se transformaram e foram adaptadas para atender aos mais diversos desígnios. Doze Césares revela um mundo de apropriações indevidas, identidades trocadas, falsificações e representações ambivalentes do poder. Numa era dominada por imagens, Mary Beard segue o fio de séculos de construção da autoridade política por meio de retratos e esculturas.

Mary Beard y John Henderson nos descubren en este libro el mundo antiguo de Grecia y Roma como nunca lo habíamos imaginado, con sus esculturas pintadas de brillantes colores y sus edificios totalmente decorados con frescos y mosaicos. Su análisis, revelador y emocionante, recorre las delicadas pinturas de las villas pompeyanas, aventura cómo debieron ser las estatuas en todo su esplendor cromático, revela cuál era el sentido de la desnudez femenina en el mundo clásico y nos sorprende con la utilidad que tuvieron los monumentos. Así, nos demuestra cómo las innovaciones artísticas de la Antigüedad se han convertido hoy en las convenciones de nuestra cultura. Nuevo prólogo a esta edición de Mary Beard

Wie sieht das Gesicht der Macht aus? Und wie reagieren wir auf Statuen von Politikern, die wir fürchten oder gar hassen? Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Denkmalstürze erzählt die Bestsellerautorin Mary Beard von den römischen Kaisern und ihrem Nachleben in späteren Generationen. Mary Beard nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise durch zwei Jahrtausende Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte: Ausgehend von den kaiserlichen Porträts und Skulpturen der römischen Politik, erzählt sie von fluiden Identitäten, beabsichtigten und unbeabsichtigten Verwechslungen und grotesken Fälschungen. Sie rekonstruiert Tizians verlorenes Kaiserzimmer und erkundet die berühmten Cäsarenteppiche Heinrichs VIII. Sie macht sichtbar, wie die römischen Kaiser in den Kunstwerken der Renaissance fortleben und in welcher Form sie in den Arbeiten einer afroamerikanischen Bildhauerin im 19. Jahrhundert auftauchen. Beards Reise führt bis in die Gegenwart: Warum gilt der Lorbeerkranz siegreicher Cäsaren noch immer als Erfolgssymbol? Wieso werden glücklose Herrscher als Neros karikiert, die fiedeln, während Rom darnieder brennt?

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture wars”—Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “Twelve Caesars,” from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian. Twelve Caesars asks why these murderous autocrats have loomed so large in art from antiquity and the Renaissance to today, when hapless leaders are still caricatured as Neros fiddling while Rome burns. Beginning with the importance of imperial portraits in Roman politics, this richly illustrated book offers a tour through 2,000 years of art and cultural history, presenting a fresh look at works by artists from Memling and Mantegna to the nineteenth-century American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as by generations of weavers, cabinetmakers, silversmiths, printers, and ceramicists. Rather than a story of a simple repetition of stable, blandly conservative images of imperial men and women, Twelve Caesars is an unexpected tale of changing identities, clueless or deliberate misidentifications, fakes, and often ambivalent representations of authority. From Beard’s reconstruction of Titian’s extraordinary lost Room of the Emperors to her reinterpretation of Henry VIII’s famous Caesarian tapestries, Twelve Caesars includes fascinating detective work and offers a gripping story of some of the most challenging and disturbing portraits of power ever created. Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

「古羅馬，很重要！」 一部寫給當代的全方位羅馬史 全球翻譯超過23種語言，跨越漫漫歷史長河的耀眼帝國，榮光不滅！ 當代歷史學界超級巨星，全球矚目的劍橋教授瑪莉‧畢爾德隆重鉅作 「我們書寫與觀看這世界的角度，還有我們在這世界上的生存方式都還深深受羅馬影響。」──瑪莉‧畢爾德 羅馬離我們有多遙遠？ 知名歷史學者瑪莉‧畢爾德告訴我們：羅馬其實離我們很近，近得讓人訝異。羅馬人雖然已逝，但留給我們許多影響現代社會的概念，包括自由、公民、帝國的剝削，還有一整套現代政治的語言。它的興起與衰頹更成為我們的借鑑，不時提點我們「獨斷專行的盡頭，就是恐怖統治的開始」。要說我們現在身處的世界框架，泰半是羅馬人建立的也不為過。 羅馬帝國的崛起與擴張，是持續吸引人們目光長達百年的謎團，更是現代世界發展的重要里程碑。鑽研羅馬的歷史，是在探詢人類文明一頁華麗的轉折。 畢爾德筆下的羅馬像複雜的萬花筒，絢麗、能量十足，同時又矛盾且衝突頻仍，而這個偉大帝國的生命力，正是來自這些不斷流動、消長的力量。羅馬人野蠻又文明、暴力又寬容、唯我獨尊又海納不同文化。這麼一個受萬千後世吹捧、研究、敬畏的大帝國羅馬，在最初不過是義大利中部一座不起眼的小小村鎮──羅馬人究竟是怎麼做到這一切的？羅馬究竟是怎麼造就的？探詢這包羅萬象的帝國，像是在探究西方文明轉變的契機、人類文明的奧秘。 世界上沒有哪個帝國像羅馬，它從未死去，而是成為了後世探詢文明源頭的沃土。羅馬的歷史不只是眾多史書紙上的一頁，它始終在書寫中，活生生、從未完成、永遠有新鮮發現。 各界推薦 若當時有畢爾德相伴，羅馬人肯定能繼續保有他們的帝國。 ──《每日郵報》（Daily Mail） 一部精湛的編年大作……流行歷史作品的典範，引人入勝而不流於淺薄，展現宏大的敘述和深入的細節，生動地讓遙遠的過去活了過來。 ──《經濟學人》（The Economist） 畢爾德寫出了很少普及作家敢嘗試、許多人無法成就的作品……她揭示了古羅馬人在權力、公民權、帝國與身分認同問題上的掙扎，就和好幾世紀之後的人們一樣。 ──《大西洋雜誌》（The Atlantic） 在這本精彩、簡明的歷史著作中，畢爾德乾淨俐落、冷靜而明晰地揭開了這座城市大獲成功的祕密，無人能出其右。 ──《紐約時報書評》（New York Times Book Review） 畢爾德這本書不僅探索了古老、共和的羅馬帝國，還有最終被帝國掌控的東部與西部省分……她輕鬆、熟練的運用了考古學、貨幣學、語言學，當然還有寫於石塊與莎草紙上豐富的紀錄。 ──《紐約時報書評》（New York Review of Books） 畢爾德精確、明晰地闡述了整個故事，充滿熱情並毫無艱澀難讀之處……本書勘比令人敬畏的成功故事，而講述它的人有著絕佳的天賦。 ──《華爾街日報》（Wall Street Journal） 即便畢爾德自謙稱是五十年的積累與研究造就了這本書，她自己只是輕鬆地於其中做學問而已。但當她領我們走過羅馬公民留下痕跡的妓院、酒吧和小巷道時，我們首先感覺到的是她全然樂在其中。 ──《新共和雜誌》（New Republic） 畢爾德用輕快的語調掩蓋了敘述背後嚴峻的學術壓力。她不希望讀者向羅馬人學習如何生活，也不希望有任何類似的陳腔濫調。她希望我們與羅馬人交流。 ──《衛報》（The Guardian） 作者在審視羅馬人對自己的史學和政治理論時，無疑是最強而有力的。她明晰、反覆地說明羅馬人對百年前發生之事的描述，如何無可避免地反映了他們當下的觀點和關注。對偉大命運的想法、契約的傳統，甚至是共和整體的基本制度，都被羅馬人投射到他們城市興起的早期，接著用來解釋當下的情況。 ──《金融時報》（Financial Times） 瑪莉．畢爾德可能是唯一一位可以超越她著作開天闢地第一句話「古羅馬很重要」的人。如果這句話來自一個不稱頭的人物，顯然會很無聊，但同一句話由畢爾德寫下，就是一個充滿自信的提醒，告訴大家：留心這段歷史，在這之中產生的問題和疑問，至今仍存。 ──《時代雜誌》（Time） 畢爾德的天才之處在於單獨使用SPQR作現代闡述，而非直接以古喻今，指出二十一世紀政治與爭議與古早時期的相似之處。她的這本書因此不只提供了對羅馬歷史的見解，也提供了對當時代所面臨的挑戰的見解。 ──《外交政策雜誌》（Foreign Affairs）

Vingt-cinq siècles après s’être dressé sur les hauteurs d’Athènes, le Parthénon reste l’une des merveilles du monde, et ses origines, ses étranges revers de fortune, qui jalonnent plus de deux millénaires, demeurent une source perpétuelle de curiosité, de controverse et d’intrigues. Grâce à Mary Beard, la grande helléniste et historienne de l’Antiquité, nous remontons au Ve siècle avant Jésus-Christ afin de contempler le Parthénon sous son aspect d’origine – celui du temple phare de l’Athènes impériale, abritant une colossale statue en or et en ivoire de la déesse tutélaire de la cité. Transformé en cathédrale de « Notre Dame d’Athènes » au XIIIe siècle, avant de devenir en 1456 « la plus belle mosquée du monde », le Parthénon est aujourd’hui une ruine, un symbole et une source d’inspiration. Mary Beard raconte également les vives querelles qui continuent d’entourer les « marbres d’Elgin », ces sculptures abritées depuis 1802 au British Museum. Son livre nous invite à une exploration incomparable de la merveilleuse histoire de ce monument, gloire de l’Acropole, et de ce qu’il incarne à notre époque.

How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals? As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic books, humourists, historians, biographers, nature writers, film writers, travel writers, writers young and old and from an extraordinary range of backgrounds. Most are famous perhaps because they have won the Booker or other literary prizes, written bestsellers, changed the face of popular culture or sold millions of records. Others are not yet household names but write with depth of insight and feeling. There is some extraordinary writing in this book. Some of these pieces are expressions of love of particular places in Europe. Some are true stories, some nostalgic, some hopeful. Some are cries of pain. There are hilarious pieces. There are cries of pain and regret. Some pieces are quietly devastating. All are passionate. Conceived as a love letter to Europe, this book may also help reawaken love for Britain. It shows the unique richness and diversity of British cultures, a multitude of voices in harmony. Contributors include: Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Philip Ardagh, Jake Arnott, Patricia Atkinson, Paul Atterbury, Richard Beard, Mary Beard, Don Boyd, Melvyn Bragg, Gyles Brandreth, Kathleen Burke, James Buxton, Philip Carr, Brian Catling, Shami Chakrabarti, Chris Cleave, Mark Cocker, Peter Conradi , Heather Cooper, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Roger Crowley, David Crystal, William Dalrymple, Lindsey Davies, Margaret Drabble, Mark Ellen, Richard Evans, Michel Faber, Sebastian Faulks, Ranulph Fiennes, Robert Fox, James Fox, Neil Gaiman, Evelyn Glennie, James Hanning, Nick Hayes, Alan Hollinghurst, Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch, Will Hutton, Robert Irwin, Holly Johnson , Liane Jones, Ruth Jones, Sam Jordison, Kapka Kassabova, AL Kennedy, Hermione Lee, Prue Leith, Patrick Lenox, Roger Lewis, David Lindo, Penelope Lively, Beth Lync, Richard Mabey, Sue MacGregor, Ian Martin, Frank McDonough, Jonathan Meades, Andrew Miller, Deborah Moggach, Ben Moor, Alan Moore, Paul Morley, Jackie Morris, Charles Nicholl, Richard Overy, Chris Riddell, Adam Roberts, Tony Robinson, Lee Rourke, Sophie Sabbage, Marcus Sedgwick, Richard Shirreff, Paul Stanford, Isy Suttie, Sandi Toksvig, Colin Tudge, Ed Vulliamy, Anna Whitelock, Kate Williams, Michael Wood, Louisa Young

Après le "triomphe romain" de SPQR, Mary Beard revient sur un sujet d''une actualité brulante : la question du pouvoir des femmes en occident, de l''antiquité à nos jours. Si la question de la place des femmes dans les structures du pouvoir est d''une actualité brûlante, la misogynie a des racines anciennes. Dès l''Odyssée d''Homère, les femmes se sont vues interdire tout rôle de premier plan dans la vie civique, le discours public, indissociable du pouvoir politique, étant défini comme masculin. Pour mieux cerner la violence exercée sur les femmes afin de leur intimer le silence, Mary Beard puisse dans l''histoire de Méduse ou de Philomèle (dont la langue fut coupée), d''Elizabeth Ire ou d''Hillary Clinton. Elle revisite ainsi, avec humour, la question de l''égalité des sexes et explique pourquoi, depuis deux mille ans, l''on a réservé aux femmes qui s''expriment et revendiquent le pouvoir une image détestable. Edifiant et salutaire ! u200b" Ce livre est un trésor. " Herald " Un manifeste pétillant et dynamique. " The New York Times

From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica, the colossal statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and the nudes of classical Greece, Beard explores the power, hierarchy, and gender politics of the art of the ancient world, and explains how it came to define the so-called civilized world. In Part II, Beard chronicles some of the most breathtaking religious imagery ever made—whether at Angkor Wat, Ravenna, Venice, or in the art of Jewish and Islamic calligraphers— to show how all religions, ancient and modern, have faced irreconcilable problems in trying to picture the divine. With this classic volume, Beard redefines the Western-and male-centric legacies of Ernst Gombrich and Kenneth Clark.

Met wrange humor begeeft Mary Beard, de beroemdste classicus van het Verenigd Koninkrijk, zich in de genderdiscussie. Ze toont ons hoe in de geschiedenis machtige vrouwen behandeld zijn. Haar voorbeelden komen uit de klassieke oudheid en het hier en nu, en ze leggen de culturele pijlers onder een eeuwigdurende misogynie bloot. Ze bespreekt de stem van vrouwen in het maatschappelijk debat en bevraagt onze aannames omtrent de manier waarop vrouwen met macht omgaan. En hoe komt het dat zo weinig machtige vrouwen aan een mannelijk rolmodel weten te ontsnappen? Naar aanleiding van haar persoonlijke online-ervaringen op het gebied van seksisme en agressie vraagt Mary Beard zich af: als vrouwen niet zichtbaar zijn binnen onze machtsstructuren, is het dan niet de macht die we moeten omvormen?

Uma das mais respeitadas e conhecidas historiadoras contemporâneas, Mary Beard escreve um verdadeiro manifesto feminista. Baseado em duas palestras proferidas por ela nos últimos anos, O poder das mulheres traça as origens da misoginia desde os tempos antigos e mostra que esse ódio continua tendo voz. A autora apresenta inúmeros exemplos de como as mulheres sempre foram proibidas de terem um papel de liderança na vida civil. De Medusa a Filomena (que teve a língua cortada) passando por Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel e Dilma Rousseff, Mary Beard faz reflexões inclusive sobre a sua própria trajetória para discutir como o papel feminino precisa ser redefinido na estrutura de poder da sociedade atual. Mais um best-seller da autora de SPQR.

Quando nell''Odissea omerica Penelope chiede a Femio, l''aedo, di cantare qualcosa di meno triste del periglioso ritorno da Troia degli eroi achei, l''imberbe Telemaco interviene bruscamente, invitando la madre a rientrare nelle proprie stanze e ricordandole che «la parola spetta agli uomini». Per quanto saggia e matura, Penelope china il capo di fronte al figlio e si ritira in silenzio. All''alba della tradizione letteraria dell''Occidente, questo è il primo esempio di un uomo che ordina a una donna di tacere e di uscire di scena. Da Aristofane a Ovidio, da Valerio Massimo a Plutarco ne seguiranno altri, a dimostrazione di come, fin dall''antichità classica, alle donne sia stato sottratto il diritto di parola, e insieme a esso la possibilità di accedere al discorso pubblico. Negata e svilita, derisa e temuta, la voce femminile è stata ridotta al silenzio, un silenzio, però, che a distanza di secoli sembra gravare ancora sulla volontà delle donne di essere ascoltate, prese sul serio, considerate per le loro capacità e competenze. Un silenzio a cui gli uomini sembrerebbe non intendano rinunciare, se solo pensiamo alle ingiurie e alle intimidazioni di cui le donne sono fatte oggetto - nel web come nella politica o nella cultura - non per ciò che dicono ma per il semplice fatto di voler parlare. Evidentemente, nella radicale alterità della loro voce, «differente» e per questo foriera di una diversa concezione del mondo, si avverte ancora l''eco di quel pericolo che il mondo greco paventava, quando, nelle figure tragiche di Medea, di Antigone o di Clitennestra - per citarne solo alcune -, scorgeva una reale minaccia per la polis, la comunità, l''ordine costituito. In Donne e potere Mary Beard riannoda i fili che, ancora una volta, ci legano alla Grecia e alla Roma antiche, per dimostrare quanto siano profondi i meccanismi che impongono alle donne il silenzio e quanto sia alto il prezzo che esse devono pagare per rivendicare la libertà di parola.

Mary Beard no es solo la clasicista más famosa a nivel internacional; es también una feminista comprometida y como tal se manifiesta asiduamente en las redes sociales. En este libro muestra, con ironía y sabiduría, cómo la historia ha tratado a las mujeres y personajes femeninos poderosos. Sus ejemplos van desde el mundo clásico hasta el día de hoy, desde Penélope, Medusa o Atenea hasta Theresa May y Hillary Clinton. Beard explora los fundamentos culturales de la misoginia, considerando la voz pública de las mujeres, nuestras suposiciones culturales sobre la relación de las mujeres con el poder y cuánto se resisten las mujeres poderosas a ser sometidas a un patrón masculino. Con reflexiones personales sobre sus propias experiencias de sexismo y agresión de género que ha soportado en las redes sociales, la autora pregunta: si no se percibe que las mujeres están dentro de las estructuras del poder, ¿no es necesario redefinir el poder?

Since civilisation began, we have attempted to understand what it means to be human - be it through art, language, culture, or religion. Our understanding is most often split between two different interpretations of the self: as a physical being and spiritual one.0Here, Professor Mary Beard lends a helping hand, mapping the progression of our understanding through the history of art and religion in civilisations. Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a physical subject of art, Mary Beard examines the history of beauty. Beginning with the Jericho painted skulls from 10,000 years ago, and spanning the globe.0Mary then focuses on how art enabled large and complex societies to organise themselves through religion. The power of Christianity in Europe is examined through the glittering Byzantine mosaics at Ravenna, the exquisite calligraphy of Islamic art shows how aniconic art and the removal (largely) of the human figure pointed to a different way of conveying the divine and how each piece describes the spiritual harmony of ''heaven and earth''.0Mary examines in depth the creativity that gave identity to great civilisations, past and present.

New York Times Bestseller One of the Guardian''s "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" — "A modern feminist classic." From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power. At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated strong women since time immemorial. As far back as Homer’s Odyssey, Beard shows, women have been prohibited from leadership roles in civic life, public speech being defined as inherently male. From Medusa to Philomela (whose tongue was cut out), from Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren (who was told to sit down), Beard draws illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship to power—and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template. With personal reflections on her own online experiences with sexism, Beard asks: If women aren’t perceived to be within the structure of power, isn’t it power itself we need to redefine? And how many more centuries should we be expected to wait?

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Durante muito tempo, Pompeia foi uma próspera cidade do Império Romano, até ser devastada, em 79 d.C., por uma das maiores erupções do Vesúvio de que se tem notícia. Ao longo dos anos que se seguiram, e ainda hoje, questões sobre seus habitantes e o estilo de vida que levavam até o fatídico dia em que a cidade sucumbiu à fúria do vulcão povoam a mente de estudiosos e leigos. A especialista em classicismo Mary Beard vai além das questões mais corriqueiras, aprofunda-se em detalhes muitas vezes negligenciados, questiona posições já consagradas por arqueólogos de diversas épocas e desmistifica inúmeros fatos relacionados ao cotidiano daquela população. Com centenas de ilustrações, mapas, plantas baixas e fotografias, este livro conduz o leitor a um mergulho no dia a dia da cidade, em uma viagem pelas ruas e casas desta cidade romana.